Health Equity and Social Justice

NACCHO seeks to incorporate health equity through social justice into its work in a number of ways:

NACCHO’s Health Equity and Social Justice Strategic Direction Team, an advisory group of NACCHO members whose mission is to advance action to attain health equity through social justice;
Health Equity and Social Justice Cross-Cutting Team, made up of NACCHO staff members working to ensure that all of NACCHO’s work advances health equity; and
Specific projects devoted to advancing health equity in public health practice. More »

NACCHO's Health Equity Campaign

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequity Making Us Sick?

This series, aired on PBS and available on DVD, explores how inequalities in housing, health, jobs, and education, combined with a lack of power and control over one's life, can result in poor health and even death. Preview a clip of this documentary series on the extent of America's health inequities or learn more about NACCHO's Health Equity Campaign.

Tackling Health Inequities through Public Health Practice: A Handbook for Action

This handbook offers knowledge-based innovative approaches for transforming daily public health practices and cultures to attack the root causes of inequities in the distribution of disease and illness. Preview this publication.

Model Practices

This database allows users to benefit from others’ experiences, to learn what works, and to ensure that resources are used wisely on effective programs that have been implemented with good results.

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